Garment suspender



April 26, 1927. 62 .3 5

R. STEPHENSON I GARMENT SUSPENDER Filed may 1, 192a Patented Apr. 26, 1927.

ROBERT STEPHENSON, OF BLACKBURN, ENGLAND.

GARMENT SUSPENDER.

Application filed May 1, 1926, Serial No. 106,041, and. in Great Britain May 22, 1925.

' This invention relates to garment suspenders especially for stockings, socks and the like and has for its object to provide a suspender having a minimum number of parts which can be assembled without stitching or like means.

As a rule, the portion of a Suspender which actually engages the stocking or sock comprises a metal clip in the-form of a plate having key-hole slot therein, adapted to engage .a rubber stud or button formed on or connected to a tag of rubber or the like. Hitherto the upper end of the slotted metal plate has been connected to the tag by means of a loop of elastic or fabric or it hasbeen carried by a separate tag which lies above that which carries the rubber stud.

According to this invention the tag which carries the stud is provided with lateral slots' so that it can be sprung into engagement with arms or trunnions formed on the back of the slotted plate about which the plate can then pivot. The plate is preferably pressed from sheet metal, celluloid or other suitable material.

When the invention is applied to a sock suspender of the known triangular pad type, the entire pad together with the strap portion which encircles the leg may be formed from a single piece of rubber, the pad not only having at its lower extremity a slotted tag carrying a stud as already described, but also being furnished with one or more additional and similar studs to engage holes in the strap portion and with one or more slots through which the free end of the strap may bepassed so as to lie between the pad and the wearers leg.

One construction of sock suspender embodying the present invention is shown by way of example in the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is an elevation showing the suspender without the metal clip,

Figure 2 is a sectional elevation of the pad showing the clip in its closed position.

' Figure 3 is a perspective view of the metal clip detached, and

Figure 4 is a section on the line 4;4t of Figure 1.

. The suspender illustrated comprises a substantially triangular rubber pad portion A having a strap portion B formed in one with it, if desired one or both these parts being provided on their rear face with ribs or corrugations such as A (Figure 4) to ensure ventilation. The lower end of the pad carries a stud C the neck of which has a reinforcing web O adapted to engage thesock in the known manner.

A similar stud D is provided atthe upper corner of the pad opposite the strap portion and,'if desired, anidentical stud E may be formed on the face of the pad at the junction between the pad and the strap. When an additional stud E is provided, the strap can, at the option of the wearer, be severed from the pad along the dotted line B The strap portionis furnished with a set of perforations D which can engage the stud D after the strap has been passed round the wearers leg, the free end being then inserted through theslot A If the strap portion is to be severed fromthe pad, an additional set of perforations E are provided one of which is caused to engage the extra stud E. r The metal portion of the clip comprises a .single metal plate having a key-hole portion F, the reduced end of which engages the stud C after the sock has been inserted between them in the usual manner. Instead of the clip being pivotally connected to the pad by means of an elastic loop or tag in the usual way, the plate has rearwardly extending arms F projecting at right angles to its main portion which constitute pivot-s or trunnions adapted to engage slots A formed in the edges of the pad, at their inner ends these arms being extended upwards and connected together by a trans I verse member F Further, the main portion has arms F which extend towards the centre of the tag, as clearly shown in Figure 3. 1 p

The shape of the complete metal plate is such that the tag can be sprung into engage nient therewith and when so engaged the rearwardly extending arms F form pivots about which it can turn and the rear transverse member F and front arms F limit this pivotal movement and prevent the clip being detached from the tag.

Hence, in its simplest form, a sock sus p-ender according to this invention comprises only two separate componentsone; of rubher and one of metaleach of which can be simply made and which can be instantly assembled without the aid of stitches, rivets or the like. f 7

It is to be understood that though priinarily designed fOI'afi. sock suspender of the pad ty e havin anintegral pad and strap; the metal clip and itscoop erating rubber stud and integral supporting tag may be applied to other forms of suspender and that, if desired, a strap or garter of elastic, leather or fabric; separate front the path may be used without departing from the I separable clip member comprising a loop portiona'dapt-ed to cooperate. with the stu'd and having arms to engage the slots in the tag ina removable n'i'anmelj' so as to consti- "tute pivots about Wliiclr theclip can then pivot as set forth; i p

In: a garment suspender the combina: tion of a'resilient. taghaving lateral slots therein -rn integral stud 0n the face thereof and a separable clip member formed from single plate of substantially rigid material and'comprising a; loopportion adapted-to cooperate with the stud and having arms to engage the slots in the tz'ig'in a removable anner so as to constitute pivots about Whichtlre clip can then pivot as' set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this spec fication;

ROBERT STEPHEN-SON: a Y 

